0 comments by Dave Singleton on 9/13/2013
Two weeks into the season, and the majority of the teams in the conference have a couple of games under their belts. Stanford, UCLA, Arizona State and Washington are the teams that have played a single, solitary game. Two weeks makes up about 17 percent of a team’s schedule, so you start to […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
I was really looking forward to settling in and watching Texas Tech vs. TCU Thursday night. It was going to be my first real opportunity to check out Baker Mayfield, the walk-on freshman starting quarterback for the Red Raiders and I was curious to see if TCU could get the offense going. As it turned […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 9/12/2013
Two weeks down and unlike the years past, there is no clear cut BCS Buster to speak of. Take a look at the polls this week and you won't see Northern Illinois, Bowling Green or Fresno State anywhere. So, as we head into week three, the question is who can emerge to be that candidate […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
Did you know that Alabama is playing Texas A&M this weekend? If you've been paying attention to the college football world this week you wouldn't have known it and that's a shame because that game could be one for the ages (or so we can all hope). Instead what should've been a week of hype […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) No. 16 UCLA at No. 23 Nebraska Saturday, 12:00 p.m. ABC Line: Nebraska -4 While it takes some coaches weeks, months and years to establish themselves on the college football landscape, it took Jim Mora Jr. all of two games. That’s right, “UCLA 36, Nebraska 33” last September wasn’t just […]
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0 comments by Kevin Causey
photo: DailyEmerald.com Tennessee (2-0) at No. 2 Oregon (2-0) Saturday, 3:30 PM EST, ABC Line: Oregon -25.5 As bad as Tennessee has been recently, this is the third straight year that they've won two straight to start the season. The last time they didn't open the year 2-0 was in 2010 when they lost to […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Vanderbilt (1-1) at No.13 South Carolina (1-1) Saturday, 7 PM EST, ESPN Line: South Carolina by 13.5 This game features two SEC East foes that both have losses coming into the third week of the season. South Carolina has been a feature game both weeks so far as they handled North Carolina in their opener […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
The Crystal Ball Run staff gathers to debate one of the big topics in college football. This week we take a look at two struggling programs not far removed from national title contention. Texas and USC played for the last BCS Championship not to be claimed by a member of the SEC. To some of […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton
No. 25 Ole Miss at Texas Saturday, 8 PM, Longhorn Network Line: Texas -3.5 A bit of allure and luster from this matchup has been lost, but there is still a lot of intrigue heading into Saturday’s matchup between Texas and Ole Miss. In this case, the intrigue centers on the Longhorns defense and […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 9/11/2013
It is only fitting Alabama and Texas A&M are squaring off in one of the top games of the college football season this weekend in College Station. Perhaps someone in the SEC scheduling office took note that today marks the birthday of Paul "Bear" Bryant, a man who would have been 100 years old if […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
No. 7 Louisville (2-0) at Kentucky (1-1) Saturday, 12:00 p.m. EST, ESPN Line: Louisville -13.5 After back-to-back impressive wins at home over Ohio (49-7) and Eastern Kentucky (44-7), Louisville is going on the road for the first time. It’s not too far, though as the Cardinals are heading to Lexington, Ky. In those wins, Louisville’s […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton
No.4 Ohio State at California Saturday, 7 PM, FOX Line: Ohio State -15 Ohio State doesn’t travel that often for out of conference games. But the Buckeyes are hitting the road this week and traveling to Berkeley to take on the Cal Golden Bears in a Big Ten/Pac-12 intersectional matchup. Last year, the Buckeyes […]
